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Post by caseagainstfaith on Nov 12, 2009 16:12:38 GMT -5
Yup I'm bored lol. I figured this would be fun as a way for us to post our favorite people/scientists/etc quotes we heard and thought were awesome.
Here are a few of mine -
So what are your favorite quotes?
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Post by brendanjd on Nov 12, 2009 18:11:21 GMT -5
"When it comes to bullshit, no one holds a candle to a clergyman"- George Carlin.
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Post by Jedi Knight on Nov 12, 2009 18:30:59 GMT -5
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." -Aldous Huxley
"I do not think it is necessary to believe that the same God who has given us our senses, reason, and intelligence wished us to abandon their use, giving us by some other means the information that we could gain through them." -Galileo Galilei
"Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities." -Voltaire
"Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a God superior to themselves. Most Gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child." -Robert A. Heinlein
"Jesus' last words on the cross, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" hardly seem like the words of a man who planned it that way. It doesn't take Sherlock Holmes to figure there is something wrong here." -Donald Morgan
"So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence." -Bertrand Russel
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Post by shelly87 on Nov 12, 2009 20:45:01 GMT -5
I know he was more of a deist but I really like this quote about using reason:
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
- Thomas Jefferson
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Nov 12, 2009 21:15:39 GMT -5
Umm...why is "quotes" in quotation marks?
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Post by MaybeNever on Nov 12, 2009 21:21:24 GMT -5
Donald Morgan's quote is something that has always bothered me about that tale. It's good dramatic writing, but the only way to square it is to conclude that Jesus didn't really know what was coming.
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Post by Ewok Jack on Nov 12, 2009 21:31:56 GMT -5
"Fanaticism is nothing but over-compensated doubt." - Carl Jung
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Post by Tiger on Nov 12, 2009 23:24:58 GMT -5
"Knock on the door, two women hand me a pamphlet saying that I'm going to hell for being a sinner. I'd shove all those pamphlets up their ass, but I'm a moral person and don't like to waste paper." - bluetabbies
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Post by Her3tiK on Nov 13, 2009 0:33:12 GMT -5
"Facts have a liberal bias" - Stephen Colbert
"I'd like to believe that the Earth was created in seven days. I really would. But, I have thoughts. And those can really fuck up the faith thing. Just ask any Catholic priest" - Lewis Black
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Post by trike on Nov 13, 2009 0:49:51 GMT -5
"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed." - Albert Einstein
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it. - Mark Twain
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Nov 13, 2009 0:51:20 GMT -5
"The most abundant substances in the universe are hydrogen & human stupidity."~Albert Einstein
"I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ."~Gandhi. Technically he's Hindu, but whatever.
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Post by Vene on Nov 13, 2009 2:21:29 GMT -5
"Facts have a liberal bias" - Stephen Colbert "I'd like to believe that the Earth was created in seven days. I really would. But, I have thoughts. And those can really fuck up the faith thing. Just ask any Catholic priest" - Lewis Black *Amused that you picked quotes from a Christian and a Jew* |
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Post by caseagainstfaith on Nov 13, 2009 9:53:56 GMT -5
Umm...why is "quotes" in quotation marks? Not trying to get off subject of quote posting but I put quotes in qutation marks just for fun....and I know it would screw with the grammar nazi's and people with those types of OCD's. So in other words just me being me. |
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Post by Her3tiK on Nov 13, 2009 10:24:09 GMT -5
"Facts have a liberal bias" - Stephen Colbert "I'd like to believe that the Earth was created in seven days. I really would. But, I have thoughts. And those can really fuck up the faith thing. Just ask any Catholic priest" - Lewis Black *Amused that you picked quotes from a Christian and a Jew* When they're right, they're right. Of course, these two are so far left that they can at least laugh at their faith, which is always a plus. |
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Post by szaleniec on Nov 13, 2009 12:13:10 GMT -5
The Charlie Brooker quote in my sig, which in case I change my sig at some point in the future is:
"If the Bible had contained a passage that claimed gravity is caused by God pulling objects toward the ground with magic invisible threads, we'd still be debating Newton with idiots too."
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